{{Short description|Alphabetical list of terms in field of knowledge}} {{For|Wikipedia's glossary|Wikipedia:Glossary|selfref=yes}} {{Further|Wikipedia:Contents/Glossaries}}
[[File:Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Muqri al Fayyumi - Glossary of Islamic Legal Terminology - Walters W590 - Bottom Exterior.jpg|thumb|right |A glossary of Islamic legal terminology]]
A '''glossary''' (from {{langx|grc|γλῶσσα}}, ''glossa''; language, speech, wording), also known as a '''vocabulary''' or '''clavis''', is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}} Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book that are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized. While glossaries are most commonly associated with non-fiction books, fiction novels sometimes include a glossary for unfamiliar terms.
A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language defined in a second language or glossed by synonyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another language.
In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations of concepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the notion of ontology. Automatic methods have been also provided that transform a glossary into an ontology<ref>R. Navigli, P. Velardi. [http://www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~navigli/pubs/Navigli_Velardi_IOS_2008.pdf From Glossaries to Ontologies: Extracting Semantic Structure from Textual Definitions], Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge (P. Buitelaar and P. Cimiano, Eds.), Series information for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, 2008, pp. 71-87.</ref> or a computational lexicon.<ref>R. Navigli. [http://www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~navigli/pubs/EACL_2009_Navigli.pdf Using Cycles and Quasi-Cycles to Disambiguate Dictionary Glosses], Proc. of 12th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece, March 30-April 3rd, 2009, pp. 594-602.</ref>
== Core glossary == thumb|right|200px|The intelligence law glossary provides a description of the key terms in intelligence law.
A ''core glossary'' is a simple glossary or explanatory dictionary that enables definition of other concepts, especially for newcomers to a language or field of study. It contains a small working vocabulary and definitions for important or frequently encountered concepts, usually including idioms or metaphors useful in a culture.
== Automatic extraction of glossaries == Computational approaches to the automated extraction of glossaries from corpora<ref>J. Klavans and S. Muresan. [https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smara/publications/klavans-amia01.pdf Evaluation of the Definder System for Fully Automatic Glossary Construction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222044813/http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smara/publications/klavans-amia01.pdf |date=2019-12-22 }}. In ''Proc. of American Medical Informatics Association Symp.'', 2001, pp. 324–328.</ref> or the Web<ref>A. Fujii, T. Ishikawa. [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P00-1062 Utilizing the World Wide Web as an Encyclopedia: Extracting Term Descriptions from Semi-Structured Texts]. In ''Proc. 38th Ann. Meeting Assoc. for Computational Linguistics'', 2000, pp. 488–495.</ref><ref>P. Velardi, R. Navigli, P. D'Amadio. [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4629722/;jsessionid=6EA3B4D4BD97E08BFCF5252EC653A1EA?arnumber=4629722 Mining the Web to Create Specialised Glossaries], IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(5), IEEE Press, 2008, pp. 18-25.</ref> have been developed in the recent years{{clarify timeframe|date=April 2025}}. These methods typically start from domain terminology and extract one or more glosses for each term of interest. Glosses can then be analyzed to extract hypernyms of the defined term and other lexical and semantic relations.
== See also == * Controlled vocabulary * Dictionary * ''Frahang-i Pahlavig'', a glossary of Pahlavi logograms * Index (publishing) * Terminology extraction
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== External links == {{Wiktionary|glossary}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060320132442/http://www.glossarist.com/ glossarist.com: The Glossarist] - Large list of glossaries * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050915123957/http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html www.ontopia.net: The TAO of Topic Maps] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080820180152/http://www.babel-linguistics.com/glossaries.htm www.babel-linguistics.com: Babel Linguistics Glossaries] Selected Multilingual Glossaries by Industry * {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Gloss, Glossary|volume=12|pages=124–128|first=John Henry|last=Hessels}} This provides a detailed description of the development of glossaries in classical languages.
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